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India and Sri Lanka in World Cup :
India (Ram) won the Cup (Sita) in 1983.
Sri Lanka (Raavan) took it (Sita) away in 1996.
Now after 14 years of Vanvaas they meet again – and you know the result
Spin plays an important role in this world cup because even the letter of spin consist the 4semi final teams S-rilanka, P-akistan, I-ndia & N-ewzealand. only one vowel (winner) in the word SPIN and that is one and only ‘I’ 🙂
Nice ones Prashant.
All teams whose captains initials are S.. Are out of the WC – strauss, smith, shahid,sammy,shakib… Guess who’s next… SANGAKKARA…..!!!!!
Awesome stats dude 🙂
Wankhede stadium stats – India vs Sri Lanka
Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer here – 437 in 10 ODIs.
Harbhajan is the only bowler that has taken 8 wickets here.
Highest total here is 299 scored by India against Sri Lanka in 1987.
India and Sri Lanka have played 2 ODIs here – both winning one game each.
India has played 14 ODIs here at this venue and its winning ratio is 8-6.
Head 2 Head – ODIs
ODIs played: 128 (India – 67, Sri Lanka – 50, NR – 11)
World Cup games: 6 (India – 2, Sri Lanka – 4)
Last 5 ODIs: India – 2, Sri Lanka – 3
Total Finals played: 17 (India – 7, Sri Lanka – 8, NR – 2)
Top run getter for India in finals:
Sachin Tendulkar – 499 in 10 matches (2 x 100, 3 x 50)
Top two run getters for Sri Lanka in finals:
Sanath Jayasuriya: 728 in 13 matches (2 x 100, 4 x 50)
Mahela Jayawardene: 366 in 11 matches (2 x 100, 4 x 50)
Top wicket getter for India in finals:
Harbhajan Singh: 15 wickets in 9 matches
Top two wicket takers for Sri Lanka in finals:
Chaminda Vaas: 18 wickets in 10 matches
Muttiah Muralitharan: 10 wickets in 11 matches
Last game between India and Sri Lanka:
August 28, 2010 at Dambulla won by Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka – 299/8 in 50 overs
India – 225/10 in 46.5 overs
Last World Cup game between India and Sri Lanka:
March 23, 2007 at Port of Spain won by Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka – 254/6 in 50 overs
India – 185/10 in 43.3 overs
Other stats:
Sangakkara needs 54 runs to get 2000 runs against India.
Sachin needs 1 more century to get a ton of them.
Sachin needs 35 runs to get 3000 runs against Sri Lanka.
Sachin needs 2 runs to get 7000 runs on home soil in ODIs.
Dhoni needs 42 runs to complete 6000 runs in ODIs.
Dhoni is the only wicket keeper-captain in the World to have won more than 100 ODIs
Gambhir needs 24 runs to complete 4000 runs in ODIs.
Kohli needs 81 runs to complete 2000 runs in ODIs.
Zaheer needs 3 wickets to become India’s highest wicket taker in World Cups (Srinath with 44 wickets is #1)
Masters of the Game
Murlitharan
– last World Cup game
– last ODI
– last game of career
– highest wicket taker against India: 74
– highest wicket taker in ODIs: 534
Tendulkar
– last World Cup game
– highest run getter against Sri Lanka: for India
– amongst all countries, has played most games against Sri Lanka: 78
– at 2975 has the second highest number of runs against SL (3058 against Australia being #1)
– highest number of career not outs is against Sri Lanka: 9 (tied with West Indies)
– second highest number of balls faced : 3383 (3598 against Australia)
– second highest number of centuries : 8 (9 against Australia)
– highest number of career 50s : 17
– second highest number of 6s: 30 (35 against Australia)
– highest number of career ducks is on home soil : 5
– has scored more runs with India batting first in ODIs
– India has won 34 matches when Sachin has remained not out and lost only 2 when Sachin has been not out
Wah! Kya stats hai….Sachin needs to win this match for India and for himself, thats one thing missing from his records.
Some more interesting ODI stats about Sachin:
– highest number of 1000+ runs in a year – 7 times (94, 96, 97, 98, 00, 03, 06, 07).
– highest number of runs in a year – 1894 runs in 1998.
– highest number of centuries in a year – 9 in 1998.
– highest number of 50s in a year – 13 (tied with Gary Kirsten).
– highest number of 4s in a year – 192 in 2007.
– highest number of 6s in a year – 40 in 1998.
– highest number of runs in an innings – 200*.
– second highest runs in an innings as a captain – 186* (Jayasuriya is #1 with 189) (Ponting has the highest number (8) of best scores as a captain)
– 12th highest career average – 45.23 (Dhoni is 6th with 48.04)
– 54th highest strike rate – 86.29 (y Pathan is #3 with 115.14, Sehwag #8 with 104.1, even Chetan Sharma is ahead of Sachin with a strike rate of 90.47 :))
– Has never scored 25 or more runs at a strike rate greater than 200 (Indians is third have achieved this feat 19 times – one more than Australia and one less the West Indies and more than Sri Lanka, Pakistan is #1 achieving this feat 38 times)
– never scored or more centuries in a single series
– most 90s in career (18)
– only second person to be out at 99 more than once
– most number of being out on 99 (3 – never against SL)
– has the highest number of ducks (20, one more than Srinath, 2 more than Kumble – Ganguly, Zaheer and Harbhajan are the next 3)
– is amongst the only 3 Indians to have 3 consecutive ducks
– is amongst the 17 Indians (9th in chronological order) to have a duck on debut (2 balls, against Pakistan)
– is the 5th highest run scored (118) from 4s and 6s in an innings (Dhoni is 2nd (120))
– never been out on the first ball of an innings (Sehwag has been out on the first ball 3 times – twice playing Sri Lanka)
Some more interesting ODI stats about India:
– India has the most number of highest innings scores for different batting positions (4 – openers, #6, #7, #9)
– India has the second highest number of best batting performances by captains – 11 (Australia is first with 12)
– India has the highest number of best performances by opposition captains – mostly by Pakistan
– No Indian has scored a century on debut
– India has the most number of people out at 99 (6)
– Only 1 Indian has never been out on a duck in his career (Yashpal Sharma)
– India has been involved in 4 of the 24 tied games in ODI history (Australia – 8, Sri Lanka – 3, Ireland – 1)
— Second highest tied game – 338 against England in this 2011 World Cup (highest total is 340)
— Lowest tied game – 126 against West Indies in 1991/92
– India (Dravid) holds the record for the most innings without a duck – 120 (Sachin’s best is 59 innings, Sehwag’s best is 72 which is currently going strong)
– India has the highest number of 100+ runs scored from 4s and 6s in an innings – 7 (Sri Lanka has 5 and all by Jayasuriya, ironically Sri Lanka holds the record for the most 100+ runs scored in 4s and 6s by their opposition – 5 times (3 of them by India [Dhoni, Sehwag, Ganguly]))
– India has the record for the longest innings by their opposition (7 – shared with England)
– No Indian (or Sri Lankan) batsman has ever carried his bat through the innings
Tension filled KV crowd here. 274 a bit tough but hope is always alive.
Cheering every run and banging drums on fours.
All KV ko Badhayee ho!! India is the world cup winner 2011.
Badhai Ho Team India Ko.